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Deforestation (Ian Lang)
Deforestation is the act of losing living animals and trees from things that are from wild forest fires, clear-cutting from agriculture, ranching and development, unstainable logging for timber, and degradation due to climate change. These issues will impact the many lives of humans and other living animals because it causing resources to be torn down or to be killed. The forest is vital for humans because it covers about 30% of the world and forest consist of trees and those trees provide oxygen for humans and it also home for a bunch of endangered animals. People rely on water from these forest as well, so when we have to see deforestation come in to affect we can come upon a lot of problems with accessible water. The WWF is trying their best to come together to make sure we are leaving the forest in a better living situation so everyone can benefit from it. You can also donate to the WWF if you would like to make an difference in the world that will help other people and help other animals. According to WWF we are losing about 18.7 million acres of forests per year and that is a critically dangerous rate.
Sustainability is the act of keeping an certain environment in check. There are multiple factors that come along with sustainability and they are social, environmental, and economical. These three pillars are important to learn about sustainability because it will help you understand the current situation your environment is in. As a nation we are making a heavy push in order to make the most sustainable machines at somewhat of an affordable price so that we can make the world a cleaner a more safe place. Politicians and scientist will have a big role on what future sustainability movements will be like so we as a nation will have to trust what their final words are. Sustainability is an investment and people have conflicted views on how we should use our money in sustainable programs and sustainable machines.
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Content
- Opening Paragraph
- Definitions
- History
- Biodiversity
- Economic
- Effect on humans
- Reducing Problems
Opening Paragraph
Climate change is affecting the earth in a very negative way and we have to come together in order to fix it. It is continuing to get worse every year and scientist are trying to make it less of a problem and it will come with a cost of time and money to fix multiple things in the earth. One of the biggest problems if not the biggest issue in climate change is deforestation. This issue is the most likely the main outlier of climate change because it affects so much of the world. Not only does it affect a lot of the world, but it also has the worst side affects to it. Deforestation has the possibility to ruins a lot of peoples lives, and if without the proper care to it, climate change will only be bigger and the issues will continue to grow.
Definitions
- Forest Management
- Rate of Deforestation
- Damage to trees and animals
- Cost of fixing the forest
- Climate Change
Forest Management is the idea of what you would have to do in order to keep the forest preserved. This is physical labor that has to be done and essentially a lot of money has to be put in this as well
History
We first started to see the common theme of deforestation back in the early 1960's. This was a time of new technology so their was a definite time of pollution going out in the world. One of the biggest deformation problems that was first recorded was multiple incidents of forest fires in Brazil. According to the Environmental Defense Fund the incidents of these sort of issues cleared out 18 percent of the Amazon which is about the size of France to put it into perspective. This stat is obviously compared to only the amazon, which is interesting because you could just imagine how it is in more dry areas in other forest. Because of these issues with deforestation in the Amazon, Brazil was forced to create a climate change law in order to save the forest and Brazil has to be to a certain standard of sustainability by 2020.
Biodiversity
Tropical forest are extremely diverse due to the fact that they own as much as 2/3 of the worlds biodiversity. Because these forest are becoming less vegetated, it is causing unabated deforestation which means it is becoming less biodiverse. Biodiversity pretty much describes the different types of live that are inhabited a certain area, so if you were to hear about biodiversity and deforestation in the same sentence, it is most likely not a good thing because it is just explaining the side effects of the deforestation in these biodiverse environments. Trying to fix the environment using biodiversity is very tough because it is such a broad topic due to the fact that there is different types of taxa for it. You can blame the populations of these biodiverse environments on why you ca't necessarily attack the biodiverse parts of the world for this.
Economics
There is a correlation between an economic growth and poor countries, and as you can guess deforestation is a bigger problem in more poor places while deforestation almost disappears in rich places. The link between economic data and deforestation is called the Kuznetsk curve. The Kuznetsk curve suggest that Africa is most likely face complete forest loss, while some sub-Saharan places can hopefully catch up to make sure they won't deal with complete forest loss. The article says the main reasons that will cause the total loss of forest in Africa will be bad governance, not having the ability to have monitoring systems, and not living in a peaceful place. It would be difficult to fix a place like Africa due to their situation but their economic situation should give a better understanding of what it would be like in order to take care of a forest's strict financials.
Effects on humans
The most important thing you need to be able to do in life is to breathe, and to breathe you will need oxygen, and you get that clean oxygen from trees, so if we don't have trees we don't have healthy human beings. If we would have to go through a rough phase of deforestation as we are now, we will see a severe decrease in healthy foods because these such forest brings us vegetation that we need, which is obviously mostly vegetables. Also when we create fires we are also burning down trees that we could have used for paper, but now that we burned those trees down we would have to ask for an even more amount in order to get some paper. As humans we should also be concerned about deforestation because we are also slowing killing animals that live there which leaves a small amount of meat left over for the humans to eat.
Reducing Problems of Deforestation
It is hard to find a direct answer on how to fix problems of these types of climate change but their are small steps that can help you first succeed. The first thing that you could do is collaborate with other countries in order to learn more about how to fix problems as a unit. One thing that could always help is the power of the economy. Obviously this would be tough to fix, but the economy will be a big determinant to where the forest will go towards. In the end the best idea is to stand with the best sustainable choices. People like to take the easy way out to not help the environment, and people need to take the first step in order to achieve a healthy sustainability pattern in our world.
See Also
Media coverage of global warming
References
- “Deforestation.” WWF, World Wildlife Fund, www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation.
- “Tragedy and Transformation: Deforestation in the Amazon.” Environmental Defense Fund, www.edf.org/blog/2013/03/20/tragedy-and-transformation-deforestation-amazon.
- Giam, Xingli. “Global Biodiversity Loss from Tropical Deforestation.” PNAS, National Academy of Sciences, 6 June 2017, www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5775.
- “Trade-Offs between Economic Growth and Deforestation.” Trade-Offs between Economic Growth and Deforestation - 2017 - IIASA, www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/about/news/170116-forest-dev.html.
- “Solutions to Deforestation.” Greenpeace USA, www.greenpeace.org/usa/forests/solutions-to-deforestation/.
Further Readings
- Bouza Herrera, Carlos Narciso. Deforestation : Conservation Policies, Economic Implications, and Environmental Impact. Nova Science Publishers, Inc, 2013. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=665645&site=ehost-live.
- Boucher, Doug, et al. Brazil: The World’s Biggest Reductions in Deforestation and Emissions. Union of Concerned Scientists, 2014, pp. 7–13, Deforestation Success Stories: Tropical Nations Where Forest Protection and Reforestation Policies Have Worked, www.jstor.org/stable/resrep00076.7.
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